Henry Nevinson

Henry W. Nevinson , journalist, writer, and husband of ES , died at Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire.

About her turn-of-the-century years and her first group of literary friends, ES wrote later, we fell in and out of love with and without disaster, like other people. But the significant falling in love...

ES first met Henry W. Nevinson when she collided with him on an ice-rink at Knightsbridge. It was in late 1903 that they became close.

After a thirty-year friendship, the sixty-three-year-old ES married Henry Nevinson , a recent widower aged seventy-five, who was also a journalist and who had been her lover for thirty years.

Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid , Alice , and Viola ), Clarence Rook and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson , whom she eventually married...

Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs , Barry Pain , Jerome K. Jerome , Hugh Walpole , and Ernest Temple Thurston . Pett Ridge (P...

MG 's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Alice Paul , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Elizabeth Robins , Helena Swanwick , Henry Nevinson , Havelock Ellis , John Galsworthy , Victor Gollancz , A. R. Orage

MAH 's memoirs give detailed and affectionate pen-portraits of innumerable friends, made both at home and in many of the other countries she travelled or worked in. Many of her English friends are known names...

As a child GHSimagined that a person, particularly a lady, would have to be something very unusual to produce real books. She was reassured by the ordinary appearance of Effie Adelaide Rowlands (pen-name...

Henry W. Nevinson called this article most beautifully done and excellent—and he was notoriously hard to please.

Henry Nevinson , however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift 's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler 's Erewhon. Harold Laski , too, admired it.

ES was apparently an unusually effective public speaker. Henry Nevinson , her long-time lover and eventual husband, said she was driven to speech by a white-hot indignation that blazed in her words rather than in...

ES took up full-time the great profession of journalism in 1904, after an absence from London for family reasons had interrupted her career as a freelance teacher. She had been a desultory journalist already...

In 1938, EMM 's name appeared in an early number of Kriticky Mesicnik, a Czech literary periodical edited by Václav Černý (reprinted in 1972 and 1992), in a list of British writers including Rosamond Lehmann

The diaries cover holidays, travel, her famine relief work in Russia (briefly excerpted in a pamphlet printed by the Friends Relief Committee), and in Britain the General Strike and civilian life during the Second World...